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Science Teacher
Old Buckenham High School, Attleborough, Norfolk, NR17 1RLThis job expired on 28 June 2024
Job start date
1 September 2024
Closing date
28 June 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
28 May 2024
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- Science
Working pattern
- Full time: Permanent, full time, 32.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Salary MPS £30,000 – UPS £46,525 per annum FTE
What skills and experience we're looking for
Science Teacher
Permanent, full time
Salary MPS £30,000 – UPS £46,525 per annum FTE
We are looking for a hard-working and enthusiastic person with high standards and the
ability to communicate and interact effectively with others as part of our school as a teacher of Science. You will have a clear focus and understanding of what makes high quality teaching and learning and provide excellent outcomes for students. You will be an excellent Science teacher and have an unwavering passion for your subject. You will have a clear focus and understanding of what makes outstanding teaching and learning and provide excellent outcomes for students. You will have the ability to teach Science at both KS3 and KS4.
JOB SPECIFICATION
General Responsibilities
The teacher of Science is responsible for:
- To teach Science to students of all abilities and at both Key Stages.
- To set classwork and homework that is in accordance with the Department’s Schemes of Work.
- To plan and prepare lessons that meet the learning needs of all students.
- To ensure the effective development of students’ citizenship, literacy, numeracy and computing skills through the subject.
- To follow the department’s procedures for assessing, recording and reporting student achievement.
- To interpret and use national, local and school-level performance data to help raise achievement.
- To implement school policies on raising of achievement and monitoring student progress.
- To report regularly to the Curriculum Leader of Science on the progress of students within their teaching groups.
- To be responsible in the first instance for the management of behavior in their teaching groups.
- To meet with parents and other agencies as necessary.
- To act as a Form Tutor.
- To take on supervisory duties in line with school policy.
The qualifications and experience required of the teacher of Science are:
- Have a qualified teacher status
What the school offers its staff
Old Buckenham High School is a small/medium-sized high school set in the heart of the beautiful Norfolk countryside. We currently have around 500 students aged between 11 and 16 years with an average of 24 students in each classroom and we are committed to ensuring that we provide all our students with an inspiring and challenging learning experience based around excellent teaching, traditional student standards and values as well as high quality pastoral care, guidance and support. Our school is firmly built upon a strong and positive community ethos of mutual respect and high standards for all. The school will use the curriculum, pastoral support programme, wider life of the school and local and wider community to comprehensively and positively promote the key fundamental British values. It is our intent to have high success rates in terms of academic achievement, we are efficient in delivery and cost effective providing diverse and rich experiences that develop students academically, socially and culturally to ensure they are fit for the 21st Century, responding to the local, regional, national and global challenges. Our strong leadership team and continuous improvement approach was recognised by Ofsted in our last inspection where we were rated as ‘Good’ in all aspects.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
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About Old Buckenham High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 492 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Old Buckenham High School website
- Email address
- HR@setrust.co.uk
Old Buckenham High School is a small/medium-sized high school set in the heart of the beautiful Norfolk countryside. We currently have around 495 students aged between 11 and 16 years, boys and girls. In each of our years we have either three or four tutor groups with an average of 24 students in each.
Students are assigned a ‘house’ when they start; Turing, Rashford, Malala, Attenborough. Students in each house compete in various interhouse competitions, including music and sports, and students are mentored by older students in their own house or paired with a literacy assistant to support their reading or a numeracy assistant for maths.
Our leadership group consists of a headteacher, a deputy headteacher and two assistant headteachers. We also have key stage leaders for the two key stages who oversee all students, from years 7 to 11.
We have curriculum leaders and subject teachers in the following subject areas; English, Maths, Science, Design & Technology, Expressive Arts, Geography, History, Modern Foreign Languages, Physical Education and Personal Development.
Arranging a visit to Old Buckenham High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email HR@setrust.co.uk.
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